People are always fighting reality until it’s pushed down their throats.
AGNES DENESWe use up words as we use up images. We use up everything, and that’s good, because it makes us grow.
More Agnes Denes Quotes
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I’d go from scientist to scientist to scientist, like a bee goes from flower to flower.
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I study what I work with. I studied all these different fields of science that I needed for my work.
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I studied how to mine a landfill and what to plant in it. It’s fascinating because you learn a new field each time.
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Maybe that’s why I was left out of a lot of things, or why my work was not really understood, because there was no precedent for it.
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Philosophy gets its ugly head into everything, but I don’t think we live philosophy anymore. It’s done.
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Pattern-finding is the purpose of the mind and the construct of the universe.
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The tree is made by nature, mathematics by people.
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So the understructure should be underrated, but strong enough to hold the earth.
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I never considered myself a performance artist.
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When I’m gone, you’ll be sitting in a cafe and say, “Do you remember Agnes?”
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There’s no precedent for women philosophers and there’s no precedence for most of the things I did.
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People have too many problems during the day; they don’t want to think.
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There are an infinite number of patterns, some of which are known; those still unknown hold the key to unresolved enigmas and paradoxes.
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And combining the two is creating this beautiful alliance between humanity and nature. That’s why my forests are mathematical expansion systems, all of them.
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Society likes to file you away, put you in this or that category. And I never fit any category.
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